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Net Balance launches research and development institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... CSI's research into impact investing and social finance, including assessing the feasibility of implementing social impact bonds in New South Wales and what actions would be necessary to create a capital market for social investment in Australia. Whilst ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Essentially this implies that our portfolio has proportionate holdings to those of the benchmark. This includes holding bonds of very indebted countries of the Eurozone. This index is also heavily exposed to the US and Japan - they're about 30% respectively ...

Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... governments or they damage other state based industries, this could have a flow on effect to the credit ratings to the government bonds and can result in an impact on our bond investments. As universal owners, asset owners in Australia can't avoid these ...

Investment in programs for Aboriginal women and girls needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... care, and earning the wage for the family, and then if you're somebody with strong community connections, or extended family bonds, that adds an extra layer. Where businesses are able to respond to be able to work in flexible ways, that becomes even ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... supermarkets. Because we have a balanced option, we are also invested in fixed income. From an ethical perspective, corporate bonds are treated the same way as equities." Cruelty Free Super's membership base is overwhelmingly women - 70% of members - ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds are proving a popular option with investors, with demand exceeding supply in a recent regional French environmental bond. Sean Kidney, executive chair of the Climate Bonds Initiative says that the investor interest in green bonds should ...

Sean Flannery joins Climate Bonds Advisory Panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Sean Flannery has joined the Climate Bonds Advisory Panel. Flannery is chief operating officer and director of sustainable investment strategies at Meister Consultants Group in Boston, and is a director of IFOK. He is also former CIO, Americas, of State ...

Omega Global Investors hires investment research analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... analysis into the selection process, including a specific allocation of up to 15% invested in "green" or climate themed bonds. See Also: Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

Low Carbon Australia joins Climate Bond Standard group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Climate Bond Standard's energy efficiency working group, which will develop criteria to certify energy efficiency-related bonds. Low Carbon Australia will work with representatives from the International Energy Agency, the European Bank of Reconstruction ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds have relatively simple structures and credit quality and yield levels similar to AAA bonds, meriting "consideration as an allocation within a fixed interest portfolio," but a lack of issuance depth is a challenge for institutional investors ...